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Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Psalm 127:1
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Psalm 127:1
Daily Meditation
24 only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
Today’s Reading
1 Samuel 12
I Will Teach You The
Good And The Right Way
1 And Samuel said
unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said
unto me, and have made a king over you. 2 And now, behold, the king walketh
before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and
I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. 3 Behold, here I am:
witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I
taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I
oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes
therewith? and I will restore it you. 4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded
us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand. 5 And he
said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness
this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is
witness.
6 And Samuel said
unto the people, It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought
your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. 7 Now therefore stand still, that I
may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord,
which he did to you and to your fathers. 8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and
your fathers cried unto the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which
brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place. 9
And when they forgat the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera,
captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into
the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. 10 And they cried
unto the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and
have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our
enemies, and we will serve thee. 11 And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and
Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on
every side, and ye dwelled safe. 12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the
children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall
reign over us: when the Lord your God was your king. 13 Now therefore behold
the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the Lord
hath set a king over you. 14 If ye will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey
his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall both
ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your
God: 15 but if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the
commandment of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you, as it
was against your fathers.
16 Now therefore
stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. 17 Is
it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the Lord, and he shall send
thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great,
which ye have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking you a king. 18 So Samuel
called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the
people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. 19 And all the people said unto
Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for we
have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
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